These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and returned later to stand by a salvage attempt.

In deteriorating weather Boy Andrew was pulled free by a large trawler and immediately began to sink. The quick thinking of the coxswain, Hewitt Clark, enabled the lifeboat to take off the remaining crew.

(Photographs courtesy Ian Leask)(Left) Lerwick's Arun class So/dian eases out of the narrow gully after passing a messenger line for the tow..